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The energy transition is formed of many different local initiatives and community-level public policies. Their capacity to transform energy production and distribution raises questions. Embedding these actions within a multi-level governance model necessitates intermediation operations. These operations serve as a connective process at the core of the project, bringing together pools of individuals, knowledge, standards, and values, from both inside and outside the territory. We seek to define the territorial operator of the transition as an organization that coordinates different actors in the territory, with the requisite autonomy to implement intermediation processes that build grassroots momentum toward the energy transition. Their intermediation operations induce the transition from one territorial system to another.As part of an action-research partnership with the CLER-Réseau, this definition was tested on ten areas involved in the European energy transition. This article aims to analyze three forms of intermediation: the first concerns harnessing and building knowledge in order to carry out the transition project; the second concerns incorporating the innovative project into what we call the long territorial history; and the third concerns creating, assimilating, or adapting standards with the goal of transition in mind. To conclude, we remark that the territorial operator of the transition is simultaneously part of energy and territorial systems while striving to transform them in successive stages.